This offer also came with verbal assurances that it was just a formality so I should just sign it.
This excuse is common, and is nonsense. If they don't plan to litigate based on it (or hold you to it) (which is what they are verbally telling you), then they would have no problem with you scribblying it out. Their answer to that tells you their intent.
if that's how management treated me while trying to convince me to join their team, god only knows how they would've treated me down the road.
And how would they have treated you down the road if you had signed away all your rights and given them a golden ticket in the NDA?
This excuse is common, and is nonsense. If they don't plan to litigate based on it (or hold you to it) (which is what they are verbally telling you), then they would have no problem with you scribblying it out. Their answer to that tells you their intent.
if that's how management treated me while trying to convince me to join their team, god only knows how they would've treated me down the road.
And how would they have treated you down the road if you had signed away all your rights and given them a golden ticket in the NDA?